Discussion paper

DP6207 Exclusive versus Non-exclusive Licensing Strategies and Moral Hazard

An upstream firm can license its innovation to downstream firms that have to exert further development effort. There are situations in which more licenses are sold if effort is a hidden action. Moral hazard may thus increase the probability that the product will be developed.

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Citation

Schmitz, P (2007), ‘DP6207 Exclusive versus Non-exclusive Licensing Strategies and Moral Hazard‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6207. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp6207